Morning journal and courier., 1887-01-20
FISHING sN EHE RuCKIES,
Members of the Finny Tribe That Lea F
 in the Mountain streams.

in the Mountain Streams. From the Amer can Angi,r ! In limited experience of fishing in the streams of the Rocky Mountains 1 am led to believe from the articles that have appeared in your columns, that the gentlemen are la boring under a false supposition when they believe that they have encountered the Dolly Warden in the streams generally fshed throughout the West, and the supposition that some highly colored mountain trout one of the "bull trout" "lakers," that may have taken their lure, is a Dolly Var den, is decidedly error. The Dolly Var den is probably one of the rarest of our American game fishes, and their habitat k in very cold streams and almost inaccessible places. When they take possession of q stream they have full sway and reign su pren1e.
 Their general appearance is nearer that of 8 salmon than perhaps any other member of the speekled salmon family. The colors are very bright, and the spots have not the outer pale circl as do the Salmo fontiuais; these spots are quite large and bright aud plenty, and extend we'll up on to the gill plates nearly their entire length. Their teeth large. plenty and sharp, and the tsil or eau dal flu is u be suty, proportionately a good size, and the curve is as perfect and symm-t- rieal to the size of the fin as could possibly be drawn by artist. Owing to the fact that the one brought home with last fall from Idaho is now on exhibition at the Cuvier club rooms, Cincinnati, Ohio, I am unable to give a more minute description.
 The "bull trout" "laker" or ''lake trout is entirely different fish, and the iescrip tion given in your columns of the ''rouuded body," etc., is description that 1 cannot improve upon. The spots are smaller, of more pale red, should call shading on the bright yellow, and they inhabit the waters in common with the regular mountain brook trout 'Rocky Mountain whitefish" and black suckers. Their flesh is not coarse grained as the Rocky Mountain trout and I consider them of more delicate flavor. They are very shy, much more so than the noun tain trout, and when they start for ''tail timber" they do not stop by the way to pick mp stray fly or bug, but attend strictly to business.
 The whitefsh, white herring, white suck or, graylin etc., is another fish on it's own merits. They are plenty in all of the Rocky Mountain streams, hut it is singular that in only few of them will they take the fly. In the Yeilowstone, where they are plenty one will quite frequently alternate on rise with the trout, and they seem to take fly with about as much vim and relish 8 the trout. In many of the streams farther west they cannot be caught at ali a fly. They ire quent deep pools and can be seen in great numbers keeping company with trout, suck CTS, etc. I saw the result of giant powder explosion that some vandal had discharged, evidently after the trout, and the bottom was nearly covered with the dead whitetsh, hundreds of them.
 This "whitefsh" hss a very peculiar shaped mouth, having projection at the ex trelne corners, hanging down from the upper jaw, that gives them the appearance, when the mouth is open, of the head Of Chinese mandarin sign on q tea store. This ''white fish," if caught out of Lake Erie, would be called white herring with a deformed mouth They resemble very rslueh in bright ness the grayling of northern Michigan, but are muah lighter in color and have no spots. n the Clearwater and Snake rivers in north ern Idaho and Washington territory there is still another species of the "whitehsh" that to my mind is white sucker, al though they rise readily to the fly. Their build is nearly that of black sucker, they have sucker mouth, the flesh i-
 white and they are very fair food fish, though nothing equaliing our Rocky Noun tain wldteish." :"